# Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories: a matching PlayStation decompilation

> ygofm-decomp reconstructs the North American PlayStation release of Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories as C whose compiled functions match the original executable bytes. Unconverted functions remain extracted assembly, and the build hashes both the executable and complete disc image against a user-supplied copy.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/gonzaloberteri/ygofm-decomp>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/gonzaloberteri/ygofm-decomp/blob/18bcb5806cb3dff60d3d3ee7163ce55ff6884c00/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/ygofm-decomp-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/ygofm-decomp-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/ygofm-decomp-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** A user-supplied MODE2/2352 game BIN/CUE disc and Psy-Q SDK 4.6 and 4.7 are required.
- **Prerequisites:** Windows or the documented off-Windows toolchain, Python 3.12 or 3.13, and project build tools are required.
- **Limits:** The author reports 317 of 1,206 game functions matched in the displayed progress snapshot.
- **License:** MIT.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/gonzaloberteri/ygofm-decomp/blob/18bcb5806cb3dff60d3d3ee7163ce55ff6884c00/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/gonzaloberteri/ygofm-decomp/blob/18bcb5806cb3dff60d3d3ee7163ce55ff6884c00/LICENSE>

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